The Rich Heiress Is Broke at School Every Day

◎ Rivals-to-lovers couple

◎ A carefree, sunny, shameless girl and a cold-on-the-outside, crazy-on-the-inside, aloof and secretly passionate guy

1/

At the end-of-term exams in her first year of high school, Lin Xia suffered a devastating defeat. She lost her place as the top student in the city and forfeited her 3,000-yuan scholarship.

From then on, she set her sights on He Song, the perennial second-place student she'd always kept under her heel.

As luck would have it, their schools merged. Lin Xia thought her chance had finally come. All she had to do was sabotage He Song's studies a little... Heh heh, that 3,000 yuan would be hers again.

But later, she discovered that the immaculate young man everyone saw was covered in mud in private.

2/

Lin Xia had a secret identity: she was the daughter of a wealthy family.

She kept it hidden for four years, until she met He Song in her second year of high school and, for the first time in her life, her secret identity was exposed!

The two stood face-to-face in a villa.

Lin Xia put on a calm front. "How about a deal? Don't tell anyone about this, okay?"

He Song's tone was cool and haughty. "Beg me."

3/

After finally meeting his match, He Song began paying a little more attention to Lin Xia.

The girl came from a poor family and scraped together her tuition. At night, she studied by candlelight to save on electricity.

She had it even worse than him.

Perhaps out of pity...

When the girl agonized over whether she could afford to add a chicken leg to her lunch, He Song pulled out his meal card.

"Don't starve to death."

When she couldn't afford study guides, he silently made an extra copy of a worksheet.

Lin Xia was confused. "Why are you so nice to me?"

He Song: "Don't get the wrong idea. It's just mutual respect between strong people."

Somewhere along the way, his pity quietly became an unspoken feeling. But then he unexpectedly discovered that the girl's father was the richest man in the country.

Thinking back to the cheap group meals they'd ordered to save money and the last buses they'd rushed to catch,

all of it now felt like a resounding slap across He Song's face.

"You lied to me for so long. Was it fun to play me?"

[Bonus Scene]

One day later, He Song pinned the girl against a wall, his dark eyes fixed on her lips, brimming with restrained desire.

What goes around comes around. Now Lin Xia finally had the upper hand!

"Want to kiss me?"

Lin Xia lifted an eyebrow and tilted up her chin, imitating his tone from back then.

"Beg me."

First version of the synopsis written on 2025.12.22

Theme: Study hard